When the state route system was originally created, New York City was excluded from it and various state routes ended at the city line. In 1932, the New York Automobile Club proposed a system of state routes for the city, which were eventually approved by the Police Commissioner and added to the state route system. These routes are listed below. Please note that every single one of them has been rerouted at least once since 1932. In a few cases, the streets along which the state routes originally went have had portions either torn up or turned into one-way streets, making the original routes innavigable. The information on this page was obtained from a March 20, 1932 article in The New York Times entitled "Through Routes Mapped."

Except for a short section in Rosedale between the Belt Parkway and the Queens-Nassau border, Sunrise Highway in Queens has been replaced by Conduit Boulevard, North Conduit Avenue, and South Conduit Avenue.